[lumberjack]

http://ageofshitlords.com/white-guy-pret...ngton-post

Remember that “White men should not be allowed to vote” article from The Huffington Post a few days ago that they initially defended and then deleted after realizing that the author doesn’t exist? It was written and submitted by a troll; a white male troll for that matter. The supposed writer of the article, one “Shelley Garland”, does not exist. The real author of the article has come forth to prove that he wrote it, and to explain why he did.

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On April 13, HuffPo SA (South Africa) published on its Voices section an article bearing this headline: “Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?” The article, a racist polemic written by a philosophy student who called herself Shelley Garland, suggested it was time to consider stripping white men of voting rights.

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Though the article violated its own editorial standards, HuffPo SA initially defended the piece, noting that “Garland’s underlying analysis about the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world is pretty standard for feminist theory.” In her defense of the article, editor-in-chief Verashni Pillay shared some of the rude comments the article had elicited, a demonstration perhaps that the author’s thesis was correct.

Lewacka gazeta Huffington Post na poważnie opublikowała artykuł studenta filozofii, który podając się za kobietę domagał się odebrania prawa głosu białym mężczyznom Artykuł był najpierw przez gazetę broniony, lecz ostatecznie został skasowany pod naporem oskarżeń o rasizm.